“The Curiosity is a true page-turner, mixing cutting edge science with an all-too-human love story. I’m green with envy for this writer’s bold imagination. It’s one of the most assured debuts in years, a book that will stop your heart and start it again. “

- Justin Cronin, author of The Passage and The Twelve.

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Last Rights

"...what Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed was to car safety in the 1960s. This is one book that America must read!"

— Ira Byock, M.D., author of Dying Well and The Four Things That Matter

Authentic Patriotism

"From retiree Jack McConnell in South Carolina to Majora Carter in the Bronx, Americans who brought real change to their communities have maintained a great nation while our institutions have failed us. Authentic Patriotism is the story of those people whom you have never heard of, but who are most responsible for the greatness of America."

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Great news! As publishers have moved book release dates around, a coincidence has occurred. THE CURIOSITY is publishing on the same day as THE LIGHT IN THE RUINS by my buddy Chris Bohjalian. In fact the two books have already appeared together on several “hot summer read” lists. In an act of superhuman generosity, Chris has invited […]

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Imagine an October day, 32,000 years ago. In the tundra of Siberia, a squirrel buried a seed he intended to eat during the long winter ahead. But the animal never came back, and the seed sat dormant for all of those millennia. Then, in 1995, researchers discovered a maze of petrified burrows, and unearthed thousands […]